The number of people coming on a boat to rescue the Mariner.
What are 3 people?
200
II 460- 464
“ Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship.../ Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -”
What is repetition?
200
Symbolizes hidden power in part VI.
What is the moon?
200
Where Kubla Khan built his pleasure dome
What is Xanadu
300
A religious man praying on the moss.
What is the Hermit?
300
V 294
"To Mary Queen the praise be given"
What is allusion
300
Symbolizes the cleansing of sin and lifting of curse
What is rain
300
An allusion to Alpheus the river god
What is the (imaginary) river of Alph?
400
The length of time in which the Mariner endured the dead men's watch.
What is 7 days and nights?
400
VII 533-537
“Brown skeletons of leaves…/ ivy-pod is heavy with snow./And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, /That eats the she-wolf’s young.”
What is extended metaphor?
400
Symbolizes the burden of sin and compared to the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Sometimes used metaphorically to symbolize a psychological burden that feels like a curse.
What is the Albatross
400
A contrast between the beautiful man-made structures and the mysterious caverns of nature that symbolizes the strange balance created between man's symmetry and nature's irregularity.
What is What is "a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice"
500
The wedding guest gains this at the end of the tale.
What is insight, sense of wisdom, sense of life?
500
Coleridge used this recreation drug to create this poem